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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Tessa Fontaines astonishing memoir of pushing past fear, The Electric Woman, follows the author on a life-affirming journey of loss and self-discoverythrough her time on the road with the last traveling American sideshow and her relationship with an adventurous, spirited mother
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Description
Describes the author's novice plunge into the abstract and intensely competitive world of the contemporary circus while tracing the history of circus performance and the current Cirque du Soleil-fueled renewal of circus popularity.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
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Description
Traces the story of world-famous trapeze artist Leitzel and her star-crossed love affair with Alfredo Codona of the famous Flying Codona Brothers, chronicling her disadvantaged youth, three marriages, and achievements with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Elsa Mars is the proprietor of a troupe of human "curiosities" on a desperate journey of survival in the sleepy hamlet of Jupiter, Florida, in 1952. Her menagerie of performers includes a two-headed, telepathic twin, a take-charge bearded lady, a vulnerable strongman, and his three-breasted wife. But strange emergence of an entity will savagely threaten the lives of the townsfolk and freaks alike.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Lavinia Warren never let her heightor the lack of itprevent her from leading a full and adventurous life. Although she never grew more than three feet tall, she became a beloved teacher, a world traveler, an entertainer and the friend of many powerful figures. Lavinia was teaching at a local school when she heard about an opportunity to travel doing shows as a “human curiosity” on a Mississippi River boat. Eventually she met P. T. Barnum and worked...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Lillia, fifteen, flees Warsaw with her father and baby sister in 1940 to try to make a new start in Shanghai, China, but the conflict grows more intense as America and Japan become involved.
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